Lidia Bastianich Quotes

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.

My tradition, as an adult, is to have an open-door policy on Thanksgiving. I always host, and I welcome absolutely anyone into my home. I think it's really special. If people are going through hard times or not getting along well with their family, they flock to my house. And I'll have my tree up!

I wanted to keep that message of food and family alive, and how it brings people together and builds relationships and communication.

It's what makes me the happiest - to make beautiful things for the people I love, and to fill my home with love and laughter and music and food and people.

The valuable lesson is that holidays are about love, and that's what I have to try and channel.

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home.

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?